server-side transfers?

[blanc]

Hi,

according to a description on Rclone:

Rclone employs server-side transfers to minimize local bandwidth use and transfers from one provider to another without using local disk.

What does it mean with „server-side transfers“ at all?

[jagabo]

Files are transferred directly from one server to another, not from the source server to your computer then from your computer to the destination server.

[blanc]

What kind of servers? Cloud servers or something else?

[jagabo]

Presumably they're talking about cloud servers.

[thecoalman]

I don't use the product but based on what I'm reading it's basically FTP type application for server. Many of these cloud services have their own non FTP protocols/API and this supports them. If you have for example server and root access you can install it and transfer/sync/etc your backups to Google drive or whatever storage service you have.

If you are simply looking to transfer from local computer to storage have a look at WinSCP for Windows. Most of those services also support FTP/SFTP. WinSCP can be automated through scripts triggered by Windows task scheduler if for example you want to sync local folder to remote folder or vise versa.